Coloring artwork

Up to now, we've selected colors by selecting objects and then choosing …colors from them. So, we basically select an object and we …can click on the color swatch and choose a new color for it. …Now, there are other ways of choosing and selecting and applying colors in …Illustrator which are a bit more intuitive. …And that's what we're going to have a look at here. …We're going to start in swatchesstart.ai. And you can find that in the Training …Files folder. And you'll see that I have this lady's …dress selected. Now, you'll see some different options up …here to the ones that you'll have seen before.…

And if we open up our Swatches panel and have a look at the swatch, you may get an …idea why. You'll notice it's got a little white …triangle at the bottom of it. If we double-click this and open up the …Swatch options, you'll see that this is a Process Color. …So, Process Colors are colors that you can make global. …So that basically, when I change the color, it will update all the instances …

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5/31/2012

In CS6 Adobe Illustrator is more powerful than ever before, and in this course Angie Taylor shows just how easy it can be to use. Get a tour of the interface, gain an understanding of the workflow, and be introduced to core techniques like working with artboards, understanding layers and objects, and making and moving selections. Angie also shows how to create images from shapes, apply color, reshape paths, and save and export artwork for the web, print, or animation.